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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Innovation in American Government: Change and Continuity Over Two Decades

Applications to the Innovation in American Government Awards
program have provided a forum for the nation’s public sector
innovators to tell their stories: stories of persistence,
controversy, and vindication. Sandford Borins has used those
stories to create databases to characterize the nature and
evolution of innovative programs and characteristics of successful
innovations. Replicating his path-breaking research of the early
nineties (published in his 1997 book Innovating with Integrity),
Professor Borins has just completed his analysis of applications to
the 2010 Innovations in American Government Awards. He will present
both qualitative and quantitative research to account for the
persistence of innovation and its necessary transformations. RSVPs
not required but encouraged to christina_marchand@hks.harvard.edu.
Sandford Borins is a professor of public management at the
University of Toronto and author of Innovating with Integrity: How
Local Heroes are Transforming American Government (1997) and
Governing Fables: Learning from Public Sector Narratives (2011).